The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


the Wabash, st. Louis Il Pacific railway
hospital at Peru, Ind, was shot and fatally
wounded recently by John Chrstianson
The man was beating his daughter at the
time when North attempted to stop his
brutality, with the above result. The
shooting incensed the people, who took
Christianson out of Jail and hanged him to
bridge.
ADvICEs from China state that rebel
lion took place recently at Chang Chow
near Shanghai, but was suppressed by the
authorities and ninety of the conspirators
executed.
A RECENT dispatch from St. Thomas,
West Indies, says: Peter Barlow, who took
part in the American revolution, under
General w Washington, has died in Demarara,
aged one hundred and thirty years.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that an American vessel which arrived at
New York with cargo of fish, caught off
the coast Of Newfoundland, is exempt from
the continued supervision of custom officers
on the ground that she did not clear from a
foreign port and because her cargo was
free of duty.
A PORTION of the land bordering on the
lake at Zug, the capital of the canton of
that name in Switzerland, went into the
lake on the 9th with half Of the new Quays.
Forty houses, a crowded Inn and the Hotel
Zurich, four-story structure, full of Wis
itors, vanished entirely. One hundred
persons peIished.
WORMS are destroying the cranberry
vines in and about Berlin, Wis, and it is
feared that the vines will be entirely ruined.
ADvICEs from Jonesboro, Ark, say that
a man got off the west bound train at that
place, and walking up to small crowd of
people, drew a revolver and fired three
shots, killing one man and fatally wound
ing another. The man was believed to be
an escaped lunatic
A NUMBER of murdered bodies of China
men have been floating down the Snake
river in Idaho, lately. 1t was generally
thought they had been robbed and murdered
by white men, though some thought it was
the work of Indians.
FORTY ladies took the white and black
wells at the Malinckrodt (German) convent
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9th.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS, In answer
to communication from settler suffering
from drouth, says he would be willing to
extend the benefits of the grasshopper
clause of the Land act in cases of drouth
The works of the Conesus Lake Salt and
Mining Company at Lakeville, NY. burned
the other day. Loss, 500
THE list of the contributors to the Gar
field campaign fund of 1880 from the Patent
Office, as unearthed in the late Disbursing
Clerk Bacons papers, was made public on
the 7th but only one clerk from Missouri
and not single one from Kansas was down
on the list.
THE gasoline stove-workers of America
Il
on the 9th.
THE Boston Daily AdOeTtiser and the EVen-
i,aq Record have been sold to Charles E.
Within, of Whitinsville, for 100000 The
stock of the old corporation is wiped out,
and all of the old stockholders retire from
the ownership of the new concern.
PERHAM, Mimi, reports the country alive
with grasshoppers and every thing being
eaten up.
A GANG of eight men recently attempted
to rob the through Kansas express on the
Santa Fe near Pendleton, Tex. A posse on
board opened fire and one of the robbers
fell. He was carried off by his companions,
who escaped.
OVER 800 music teachers attended the
national conventions meetings at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 9th.
THE Pope has decided to unite the dio-
ceases of Wichita and Concordia with that
of Leavenworth, Kan, and the diocese Of
Lincoln and Cheyenne with that Of Omaha
A RIOT was reported at the West Leisen-
ring (Pa.) coke works on the 7th. Four Of
the strikers were shot and killed and two
wounded. Later the report was denied.
An excited feeling prevailed all over the
coke region.
AN explosion of gun cotton at the cellu-
loid works ut Arlington. N. j., caused the
deaths Of a man and woman recently. A
dozen others were injured. Loss, $4,000.
EIGHT Italians were drowned in the Stur-
geon river mine at Metropolitan, Mich, on
the 7th, the river breaking into the works.
The Government receipts for the first
week Of July were SO, ,0S9, sos less than the
The Thistle again defeated the Irex in a
regatta OF Scotland.